• Wind and Structures
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.315-332
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• 2001

Presented herein is a numerical study for evaluating the aerodynamic behaviour of equipped bridge deck sections. In the first part, the method adopted is described, in particular concerning turbulence models, meshing requirements and numerical approach. The validation of the procedure represents the aim of the second part of the paper: the results of the numerical simulation in case of two-dimensional, steady, incompressible, turbulent flow around a realistic bridge deck are compared to the data collected from wind-tunnel tests. In order to demonstrate the influence of the section details and of the partial streamlining of the deck geometry on its aerodynamic behaviour, in the third part of the paper the effect of the fairings and of each item of equipment of the section (such as central barriers, side railings and sidewalks) is evaluated. The study has been applied to the deck section of the Normandy cable-stayed bridge.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권1A호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

사장교에 사용되는 팽팽한 경사 케이블은 풍우현상에 의하여 진동에 쉽게 노출된다. 더욱이 보편적으로 알려진 풍우현상 이외의 이상현상에 의한 과도한 진동이 발생할 여지도 항상 존재한다. 급증한 동적변위는 케이블과 보호관에 과도한 인장력을 발생시키고 정착구와 댐퍼에 피로손상을 발생시키며 보강형의 설계에서 고려하지 않았던 추가적인 전단력 변화를 발생시킨다. 본 연구는 사장 케이블의 자유장에 발생된 동적변위에 의한 케이블의 동적장력 변화와 보강형의 전단력 변화를 분석 할 수 있는 해석적인 기법을 기술하고, 이로 인해 발생될 수 있는 사장교의 동적문제를 간략히 언급한다. 이것을 실현시키기 위해 사장 케이블이 진동하여 법선방향 변위를 발생시킬 때 나타나는 변화를 현방향 장력과 법선방향 장력으로 분리하여 물리적인 현상을 미분방정식으로 표현한 후 전개한 해를 풍우현상에 적용하여 케이블의 동적장력 변화와 보강형의 전단력 변화를 산정하였다. 주목할 것으로 CIP Recommendations(2002)에서 제시하는 방법론에 본 연구의 일부사항을 반영하여 산정하면 본 연구와 매우 유사한 결과를 제시하지만 CIP Recommendations에서 제시하는 방법론을 그대로 따라서 산정하면 10% 이상의 오차를 제시함을 확인하였다. 이것은 국제적으로 활용도가 매우 높은 설계지침에서 조차도 본 연구에서 논의하는 주제에 관한 조치가 없었음을 의미하는 것이다. 여기에 관한 검증은 사장 케이블의 진동형상을 만족하도록 외적하중을 재하시킨 탄성현수선 요소를 이용한 유한요소해석을 통하여 수행하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.543-550
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• 2007

건설 분야에서는 신소재인 FRP(fiber reinforced polymer) 복합재료는 그 경량성과 고강도로 점차 그 사용영역이 넓어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 FRP 소재의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 제2 진도대교를 원형(prototype)으로 하는 3차원 선형 모델링을 하였고 케이블 및 거더에 복합소재를 적용하여 해석하였다. 해석 결과는 Steel 케이블 및 보강형을 사용한 경우와 비교를 통하여 분석하였고 정적해석 및 모드해석을 수행하였다. 정적해석에서는 각 부재의 최대 응력 및 중앙 지점의 최대 처짐을 비교하였다. 사하중 감소 때문에 복합소재를 사용한 경우 상판의 처짐이 감소하는 것을 확인하였으며, 케이블의 단면을 감소시켜 해석함으로써 그 결과를 다시 보였다. 단면 감소, 모드해석에서는 진동수 비를 통해 Flutter의 발생 풍속을 비교하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.471-488
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• 2011

The Ting Kau Bridge in Hong Kong is a cable-stayed bridge comprising two main spans and two side spans. The bridge deck is supported by three towers, an end pier and an abutment. Each of the three towers consists of a single reinforced concrete mast strengthened by transverse cables and struts. The bridge deck is supported by four inclined planes of cables emanating from anchorages at the tower tops. In view of the heavy traffic on the bridge, and threats from typhoons and earthquakes originated in areas nearby, the dynamic behaviour of long-span cable-supported bridges in the region is always an important consideration in their design. Baseline finite element models of various levels of sophistication have been built not only to match the bridge geometry and cable forces specified on the as-constructed drawings but also to be calibrated using the vibration measurement data captured by the Wind and Structural Health Monitoring System. This paper further describes the analysis of axle loading data, as well as the generation of random axle loads and simulation of vibrations of the bridge using the finite element models. Various factors affecting the vehicular loading on the bridge will also be examined.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.257-273
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• 2013

Top tensioned riser (TTR) is often used in a floating oil/gas production system deployed in deep water for oil/gas transport. This study focuses on the extension of the existing numerical code, known as CABLE3D, to allow for static and dynamic simulation of a TTR connected to a floating structure through a tensioner system or buoyancy can, and restrained by riser guides at different elevations. A tensioner system usually consists of three to six cylindrical tensioners. Although the stiffness of individual tensioner is assumed to be linear, the resultant stiffness of a tensioner system may be nonlinear. The vertical friction between a TTR and the hull at its riser guide is neglected assuming rollers are installed there. Near the water surface, a TTR is forced to move horizontally due to the motion of the upper deck of a floating structure as well as related riser guides. The extended CABLE3D is then integrated into a numerical code, known as COUPLE, for the simulation of the dynamic interaction among the hull of a floating structure, such as spar or TLP, its mooring system and riser system under the impact of wind, current and waves. To demonstrate the application of the extended CABLE3D and its integration with COUPLE, the numerical simulation is made for a truss spar under the impact of Hurricane "Ike". The mooring system of the spar consists of nine mooring lines and the riser system consists of six TTRs and two steel catenary risers (SCRs).

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.324-332
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• 2018

It is known that damages to the subsea cables used for electric power transmission between islands and countries, including renewable energy from offshore wind power, current, tides, etc., cost much to restore, which causes social and economic losses. Various types of fishing rigs and anchors have been reported to be the greatest hazards to subsea cables. It is possible to design and construct a suitable protection facility for a subsea cable by precisely estimating the underwater behavior of such hazardous apparatuses. In this study, numerical simulations of the underwater behaviors of various hazardous apparatuses were carried out using fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis as a basic study to simulate the actual behavior phenomena of hazardous apparatuses in relation to a subsea cable. In addition, the underwater drop characteristics according to the types of hazardous apparatuses were compared. In order to verify the accuracy of the FSI analysis method used in this study, we compared the test results for underwater drops of a steel ball bearing. Stock anchors, stockless anchors, and rocket piles, which were actually reported to be the cases of damage to subsea cables along the southwest coast of Korea, were considered as the hazardous apparatuses for the numerical simulations. Each hazardous apparatus was generated by a Lagrangian model and coupled with the fluid domain idealized by the Eulerian equation to construct the three-dimensional FSI analysis model. The accuracy of the numerical simulation results was verified by comparing them with the analytical solutions, and the underwater drop characteristics according to the types of hazard apparatuses were compared.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2019

이 연구에서는 교량 주요부재의 내진보강 우선순위를 합리적으로 결정하는데 그 목적이 있다. 평가대상으로 케이블 교량을 선정하였으며 정량적 지표인 주요부재의 취약도를 평가하기 위해 확률분포에 근거한 신뢰도를 활용하였다. 확률변수인 안전계수는 주하중(고정하중, 활하중)과 부하중(지진, 내풍, 온도 등)을 고려하였고 지진하중은 교량의 사용수명 동안 발생 가능한 진진을 적용하였다. 이러한 신뢰도를 근간으로 각 주요부재의 취약도 점유율을 확인한 결과 받침(23.8%)이 가장 취약하였으며 받침콘크리트(20.5%), 교각(18.9%), 기초(17.3%), 보강형(14.6%), 케이블(5.0%) 순으로 나타났다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.61-82
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• 2007

This paper presents a novel finite element (FE) model for analyzing coupled flutter of long-span bridges using the commercial FE package ANSYS. This model utilizes a specific user-defined element Matrix27 in ANSYS to model the aeroelastic forces acting on the bridge, wherein the stiffness and damping matrices are expressed in terms of the reduced wind velocity and flutter derivatives. Making use of this FE model, damped complex eigenvalue analysis is carried out to determine the complex eigenvalues, of which the real part is the logarithm decay rate and the imaginary part is the damped vibration frequency. The condition for onset of flutter instability becomes that, at a certain wind velocity, the structural system incorporating fictitious Matrix27 elements has a complex eigenvalue with zero or near-zero real part, with the imaginary part of this eigenvalue being the flutter frequency. Case studies are provided to validate the developed procedure as well as to demonstrate the flutter analysis of cable-supported bridges using ANSYS. The proposed method enables the bridge designers and engineering practitioners to analyze flutter instability by using the commercial FE package ANSYS.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.511-528
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• 2014

The characteristics of wake galloping phenomenon for two parallel/unparallel circular cylinders were investigated via wind tunnel tests. The two cylinders were initially deployed in parallel and wake galloping phenomena were observed by varying the center-to-center distance. The effect of an unparallel arrangement of two cylinders was next investigated by fixing the spacing ratio of one side of the cylinders at 5.0D and the other side at 3.0D, in which D represents the diameter of the cylinder. For the unparallel disposition, the 5.0D side showed a small, limited vibration while the 3.0D side produced much larger amplitude of vibration, resulting in a rolling motion. However, the overall amplitude appeared to decrease in unparallel disposition when compared with the amplitude of the 3.0D - 3.0D parallel case. This represents the mitigation effect of wake galloping due to the unparallel disposition between two cylinders. Flow visualization tests with particle image velocimetry were conducted to identify flow fields between two cylinders. The test results demonstrate the existence of a complex interaction of the downstream cylinder with the shear layer generated by the upstream cylinder. When the spacing ratio was large enough, the shear layer was not observed and the downstream cylinder showed only limited random vibration.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제61권6호
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• pp.785-794
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• 2017

This paper is concerned with the comparative numerical and experimental study on the natural behavior and the motion responses of a 1/75 moored scale model of a 2.5 MW spar-type floating offshore wind turbine subject to 1-D regular wave. Heave, pitch and surge motions and the mooring tensions are investigated and compared by numerical and experimental methods. The upper part of wind turbine which is composed of three rotor blades, hub and nacelle is modeled as a lumped mass and three mooring lines are pre-tensioned by means of linear springs. The numerical simulations are carried out by a coupled FEM-cable dynamics code, while the experiments are performed in a wave tank equipped with the specially-designed vision and data acquisition system. Using the both methods, the natural behavior and the motion responses in RAOs are compared and parametrically investigated to the fairlead position, the spring constant and the location of mass center of platform. It is confirmed, from the comparison, that both methods show a good agreement for all the test cases. And, it is observed that the mooring tension is influenced by all three parameters but the platform motion is dominated by the location of mass center. In addition, from the sensitivity analysis of RAOs, the coupling characteristic of platform motions and the sensitivities to the mooring parameters are investigated.